Lugo v. McGoldrick

This case presents the question, left open in our decision in Matter of Steiner v. McGoldrick (280 App. Div. 971), of the jurisdiction of the State Bent Commission to reconsider and rescind a certificate of eviction after the Municipal Court has entered a final order upon the certificate but during the time that a stay of the order is in effect.

The ground upon which the commission acted in revoking its certificate was that the landlord had perpetrated a fraud upon the commission in procuring it. Any issue of justification, as distinguished from jurisdiction, for the commission’s action is not…